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Alternative Media
The mainstream media is more concentrated than ever.52 This scenario allows for the juxtaposing of other—or alternative—information sources outside the mainstream media’s purview. So at the most basic level, alternative media is any source of information that is neither widely produced nor consumed. In societies where media products freely flow, media that provides perspectives different from those usually expressed, serves communities not catered to by mass media or explicitly advocates social change meet this definition.53
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In societies where all non-sanctioned media is banned, what would be considered alternative media? |
52 Waltz, Mitzi. Alternative and Activist Media. Edinburgh University Press. 2005. p. 1